[SLUG] Printer setup

[Robert Martinovic]

Hey,

I am trying to setup a postscript laser and am not getting very far. I
have tried to setup /etc/printcap using both magicfilter and
apsfilter, and when I send a job, nothing happens.

This is on a home lan, using debian.

One thing I have noticed: I tried using a program called webmin, under
'printer configuration', it had various settings for printing. Two of
these were:
  1. Accepting requests
  2. Printing enabled

Both of these were set to no, and regardless of how many times I
clicked yes, the changes were not saved as such.

Please, any suggestions would be welcome

Cheers,

Rob

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[SLUG] SLUG Administrative Requests

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Re: [SLUG] Off-Topic: Laptop Memory?

[Peter Rundle]

Peter,

> I've changed these  to 64M DIMMs.  The BIOS now sees only 80M.  

Which would seem to indicate that the system can see at least one
of the DIMMS. (64+16on-board) = 80. Unless it's only seeing each 
DIMM as a 32Mb. 


Sure they're 64Mb Dimms...?

Otherwise maybe one of them is dead, or maybe you have a dead slot.
Tried swapping them around mixing and matching with the old 8M dimms
to see if that adds up to a different number?


rgds

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Re: [SLUG] Spend time working around bugs!

[Mike Lake]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 03:02:27PM +1000, Ian Ward wrote:
> > Now _THAT_ is innovation!  Don't worry about fixing the bugs, write a
> > whole new system to work around it.
> > http://www.microsoft.com/office/evaluation/fastfacts.htm

Well I had to use Windows and use IE Explorer to read it. 
Netscape 4.7 on IRIX and Linux shows a top title section and a blank
content. Just nice plain white space. I have to kill Netscape as the
File/Close won't work. But at least on Unix I can kill it. On Windows
netscape hangs on this page and can't kill it - have to reboot.
But it displays fine on Explorer :-) 

Ah Mike, read the code and see why! 
Good Idea :-) 
Oh my God! 

But did have a good use for Linux today. Someone sent a uuencoded Word Doc to
me and M$ Word thought it was in a different character set :-) Couldn't work
it out at all. A few minutes later in Linux; apt-get install sharutils;
uudecode word.doc; cp word.doc /dos/temp ... and Word reads it fine.

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RE: [SLUG] Off-Topic: Laptop Memory?

[Scott Ragen]

Howard,
Learn your Maths :-)
128mb on DIMM and 16mb on-board = 144MB

Scott

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Subject: Re: [SLUG] Off-Topic: Laptop Memory?


Shouldn't that be 128M?

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On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Peter Chubb wrote:

>
> The obvious `add mem=144M' to the kernel boot line failed to work.
> (The kernel came half up then hung)
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Re: [SLUG] Spend time working around bugs!

[Ian Ward]

> 
> Now _THAT_ is innovation!  Don't worry about fixing the bugs, write a
> whole new system to work around it.
> 
> http://www.microsoft.com/office/evaluation/fastfacts.htm


Hehe, when in doubt - BLOAT !!



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Re: [SLUG] Asynchronous I/O

[Matthew Palmer]

On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, kiran wrote:

> this is kiran.

As we saw in your From: line.  Thanks for the confirmation.

> I am using Red Hat linux version 7.0.  kernel version is
> 2.2.16-22.  i want to know does this support POSIX aio(aysnchrounous io
> calls).  He has given header file /usr/include/aio.h but when i use the
> functions aio_read or aio_write it is giving in compilation saying
> undefined reference.  and i tried to find out the library for this aio. 

It's a part of the standard C library, apparently.  Five seconds with tkinfo
and the info docs for glibc found a whole section on Asynchronous I/O.  I
don't know if it's POSIX, but a comment at the top of the header file looks
awfully officious to me:

/*
 * ISO/IEC 9945-1:1996 6.7: Asynchronous Input and Output
 */

> but i am not able to.  so if any one knows about this please tell me,
> whether this is having aio support or how to make it work.

No idea how to make it work, but I'm sure you can read the docs and find out
for yourself.


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Re: [SLUG] Off-Topic: Laptop Memory?

[Howard Lowndes]

Shouldn't that be 128M?

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On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Peter Chubb wrote:

> 
> The obvious `add mem=144M' to the kernel boot line failed to work.
> (The kernel came half up then hung)
> 


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Re: [SLUG] Asynchronous I/O

[Umar Goldeli]

I have no idea about the function calls themselves, but I would assume
that you have to mount the filesystem that you're working on ayncio - it's
a mount option.

$0.02.

//umar.

> hello, this is kiran.  I am using Red Hat linux version 7.0.  kernel
> version is 2.2.16-22.  i want to know does this support POSIX
> aio(aysnchrounous io calls).  He has given header file
> /usr/include/aio.h but when i use the functions aio_read or aio_write
> it is giving in compilation saying undefined reference.  and i tried
> to find out the library for this aio.  but i am not able to.  so if
> any one knows about this please tell me, whether this is having aio
> support or how to make it work. with regards, kiran


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[SLUG] Asynchronous I/O

[kiran]

hello,
this is kiran.  I am using Red Hat linux 
version 7.0.  kernel version is 2.2.16-22.  i want to know does this 
support POSIX aio(aysnchrounous io calls).  He has given header file 
/usr/include/aio.h but when i use the functions aio_read or aio_write it is 
giving in compilation saying undefined reference.  and i tried to find out 
the library for this aio.  but i am not able to.  so if any one knows 
about this please tell me, whether this is having aio support or how to make it 
work.
with regards,
kiran

Re: [SLUG] Off-Topic: Laptop Memory?

[Michael]

So far we can say those chips of yoursa don't work.. maybe they have to be
a specific density. ie.. no doublesided.. or only single
sided.. etc... something out of my scope, as I have not used such a
machine, nor owned one.. could always check the viking components page and
see what they sell in the way of dimms. Maybe the might only offer upto
32mb dimms, which might tell us that anyone else who offers higher is
wrong..

On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Peter Chubb wrote:

> > "Michael" == Michael  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> Michael> Sounds like the unit will only support 32mb DIMM's maximum in the
> Michael> slots.. have you consulted compaq website to confirm if it will detect
> Michael> 64mb dimms?
> 
> The compaq website is confusing.  The pages specifically for the 4131T 
> say that it'll only accept up to 32M DIMMs, but the lates of these is
> 1998.  Other more-recent pages offer to sell a 128M or 256M upgrade
> that is supposed to work with the 4131T.
> 
> Peter C
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Re: [SLUG] Off-Topic: Laptop Memory?

[Peter Chubb]

> "Michael" == Michael  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Michael> Sounds like the unit will only support 32mb DIMM's maximum in the
Michael> slots.. have you consulted compaq website to confirm if it will detect
Michael> 64mb dimms?

The compaq website is confusing.  The pages specifically for the 4131T 
say that it'll only accept up to 32M DIMMs, but the lates of these is
1998.  Other more-recent pages offer to sell a 128M or 256M upgrade
that is supposed to work with the 4131T.

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Re: [SLUG] Off-Topic: Laptop Memory?

[Michael]

Sounds like the unit will only support 32mb DIMM's maximum in the
slots.. have you consulted compaq website to confirm if it will detect
64mb dimms?

 On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Peter Chubb wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> I have an Armada 4131T that I've put linux onto (of course!)
> 
> The machine has 16Mb memory on its motherboard, and two DIMM slots.
> When I got it, it had an 8M DIMM in each to give 32M in toto.
> 
> I've changed these  to 64M DIMMs.  The BIOS now sees only 80M.  Is
> there any way to get the kernel to see more?
> 
> The obvious `add mem=144M' to the kernel boot line failed to work.
> (The kernel came half up then hung)
> 
> I'm using kernel version 2.4.5 if that makes a difference.
> 
> Does anyone else here have one of these machines?
> 
> Peter C
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[SLUG] Off-Topic: Laptop Memory?

[Peter Chubb]

Hi,
I have an Armada 4131T that I've put linux onto (of course!)

The machine has 16Mb memory on its motherboard, and two DIMM slots.
When I got it, it had an 8M DIMM in each to give 32M in toto.

I've changed these  to 64M DIMMs.  The BIOS now sees only 80M.  Is
there any way to get the kernel to see more?

The obvious `add mem=144M' to the kernel boot line failed to work.
(The kernel came half up then hung)

I'm using kernel version 2.4.5 if that makes a difference.

Does anyone else here have one of these machines?

Peter C

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[SLUG] (re)Compiling .debs yourself (was: Re: Potato -> Woody)

[Angus Lees]

(lost original, so replying to a reply)

> On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Tom Massey wrote:
> > I'm mainly interested in getting a Debian system that can handle iptables,
> > which apparently needs libc6 >=2.2.3-1 (though I think this may be just a
> > dependency that apt-get and co need to run the config stuff or something
> > like that - with libc6 2.1.3-18 I can dpkg -i iptables 1.2.2-2, it
> > complains and refuses to configure it, but it still seems to work fine, I
> > can set up a firewall and masq stuff with no problems, but apt-get is
> > unusable because it complains and exits since iptables hasn't been
> > configured as far as it can tell).

most versioned dependencies (on libraries) are due to binary
compatibility. If you recompile the package yourself against your
(different) version of libraries, you get different dependencies, and
then everyone is happy.

either:

1. temporarily add "testing" deb-src lines to sources.list
 (as root) apt-get update
 apt-get source -b iptables
 (as root) dpkg -i iptables*.deb

or

2. download iptables source yourself from some debian archive
(you'll want the .dsc, .diff.gz and .orig.tar.gz files)
 dpkg-source -x iptables*.dsc
 cd iptables*
 fakeroot debian/rules   # see note (*)
 (as root) dpkg -i ../iptables*.deb


according to the package's Build-Depends, you will need "debmake"
installed to compile iptables.

(and of course, the build-essential packages:
 libc6-dev, gcc, g++, make, dpkg-dev)


(*) fakeroot gives in environment in which you appear to be root (its
a preloaded library -hack thing). if you didn't feel like installing
fakeroot, you could run debian/rules as real root, or run
user-mode-linux or something equally overkill.

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Re: [SLUG] Change of Address

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Raena Lea-Shannon wrote:
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If you "Reveal all" you will see the unsubscribe message.
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Generally mailing lists have a different address that you send subscribe
and unsubscribe messages to.

Also, this information is on the SLUG Webpages (http://www.slug.org.au)
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Re: [SLUG] Upgrading to RH 7.1

[Jobst Schmalenbach]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 10:24:10AM +1000, Jin Ting Liew ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have Redhat 7.0 on a little server that shares an internet
> connection using ipchains.  It works fine at the moment, but I'm
> thinking of upgrading to RH 7.1 which of course has the new 2.4
> kernel.  Will ipchains still function correctly (or should i say in
> the same way) under 2.4 and RH 7.1?  This is just in case implementing
> the routing tables in 2.4 takes a lot of fiddling (or if I give up in
> the end = ).

When RH 7.1 installs, it puts an ipchains script into /etc/rc.d/init.d
saving your old one. This, however, has little or no functionality as it works
together with the "firewall" stuff. This is only a limited version and
only good for the average user, but its quite secure.

However, the new kernel does not include by default the ipchains module (), 
so you need to "modload" or "insmod" this before you set up your ipchains!
Otherwise, you can use the old stuff, just make sure you load the module!


I wondered why two programs, so I asked Rusty (the writer of ipchains/iptables) 
a couple of questions. He basically said that ipchains is fine, you can continue to
use it and it will still be worked on, but iptables has a few more
advanced features. So when I have lots of time (never?) I will re-write my 
rules and load iptables instead.





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Re: [SLUG] Upgrading to RH 7.1

[Matthew Palmer]

On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Jin Ting Liew wrote:

> thinking of upgrading to RH 7.1 which of course has the new 2.4
> kernel.  Will ipchains still function correctly (or should i say in
> the same way) under 2.4 and RH 7.1?  This is just in case implementing

Yes.  There are backward compatibility modules available, which understand
the old ipchains system and make it work properly.  I highly recommend
iptables, just for the cool, fun stuff it can do, and because port
forwarding and all that stuff is now in the same subsystem as the pure
firewall code.

> the routing tables in 2.4 takes a lot of fiddling (or if I give up in
> the end = ).

If you want help with the 2.4 iptables stuff, mail here and I (and probably
others too) will help.  2.4 is cool.

> I suppose I can always keep the old kernel there and boot into it if I
> need to, but does RH 7.1 overwrite anything that's necessary for
> ipchains to function?


  Probably not, since the binary names have changed.  YMMV, I'm a
Debianite.


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Re: [SLUG] Potato -> Woody

[Matthew Palmer]

On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Tom Massey wrote:

> A question for those who follow the Debian path:

Yes, my holy brother...

[Have Potato, will travel]

> If in my /etc/apt/sources.list I put
> 
> deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian testing main contrib non-free
> deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
> 
> And then do an apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade, do I end up with a
> working Debian Woody system or a broken pile of poo?

All I can say is, It Worked For Me, after some fiddling.  You may have to do
multiple cycles of

apt-get dist-upgrade
dpkg --configure --pending

To get it all going.  When apt-get doesn't do anything, it's all done.

This is because of, I believe, a Perl thing.  Some Woody packages need Perl
5.6 things, and so if it isn't there it has a bit of a whinge.  Installing
Perl 5.6 packages after the update but before the dist-upgrade helps, but
doesn't quite seem to fix the problem.

I'm assuming that this problem will be fixed before release (and may even be
fixed now) but it was a problem when I did the same thing some time ago. 
Also, note that you'll need a pretty chunky net connection to suck down all
the packages for a reasonably sized system.

> I'm mainly interested in getting a Debian system that can handle iptables,
> which apparently needs libc6 >=2.2.3-1 (though I think this may be just a
> dependency that apt-get and co need to run the config stuff or something
> like that - with libc6 2.1.3-18 I can dpkg -i iptables 1.2.2-2, it
> complains and refuses to configure it, but it still seems to work fine, I
> can set up a firewall and masq stuff with no problems, but apt-get is
> unusable because it complains and exits since iptables hasn't been
> configured as far as it can tell).

A common problem.  My solution is to copy everything from that package into
/usr/local and then uninstall the package.[Cue rant about the whole
/usr thing, and why can't we use package-specific directories]


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[SLUG] Upgrading to RH 7.1

[Jin Ting Liew]

Hi,

I have Redhat 7.0 on a little server that shares an internet
connection using ipchains.  It works fine at the moment, but I'm
thinking of upgrading to RH 7.1 which of course has the new 2.4
kernel.  Will ipchains still function correctly (or should i say in
the same way) under 2.4 and RH 7.1?  This is just in case implementing
the routing tables in 2.4 takes a lot of fiddling (or if I give up in
the end = ).

I suppose I can always keep the old kernel there and boot into it if I
need to, but does RH 7.1 overwrite anything that's necessary for
ipchains to function?

Thanks!!

Jin

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Re: [SLUG] open sourcing the cia

[Matthew Palmer]

On Mon, 4 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> http://www.cia.gov/cia/employment/jobpostings/opensource.htm

Yes, well.  Methinks there's either a typo, thinko, subversive type in the
CIA (hmm, imagine THAT!) or someone from outside with a penchance for GNUs
has had a bit of a fiddle.  Whichever one it is, I like it.


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Re: [SLUG] Controlling RH7.1 from command line

[Ian Ward]

>- Original Message -
>From: Adam Armstrong
>To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
>Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 11:07 AM
>Subject: [SLUG] Controlling RH7.1 from command line


I agree this is becoming more difficult.  The thing to remember is the
consistent structure across the versions.

Example: PPP config,  the script pairs /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ [
ifcfg-ppp0 and chat-ppp0 ] from a 6.x system will still work on a RH7.x even
though the 7.X now users wvdial (dropping the chat-ppp0 script)

Printer config is the same.

One way around this problem is to rip those config files from another box.

I see you are using ssh.  The way I get around this problem is to use the
X11 forwarding in ssh.  If you allow X11 forwarding then when you launch the
configuration tool from the command line it will be forwarded back through
ssh to your local X display.   (ssh should set your DISPLAY variable to
"localhost:10.0" )

Regarding your printer, The standard RH Samba config will share any system
printer, so yes you just need to setup a printer in RH and then reload
samba.  The affected files are /etc/printcap and
/var/spool/lpd/printername/*

Try setting up X11 forwarding in ssh, it will be worth the effort.

Ian


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[SLUG] Club management/membership software

[Laurie Savage]

I'm the secretary of a community based cultural organisation. Our old Mac is 
dying and with it go our records (Kept in Claris Organiser). Does anybody 
know of a GNU or Linux Freeware alternative. The Address book/PIM modules in 
Mandrake or Redhat are very primitive compared with the Apple or OS/2 bundled 
equivalents.
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Re: [SLUG] Potato -> Woody

[Steve Kowalik]

On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 11:58:23PM +1000, Tom Massey uttered:
> As I lay me down to sleep,
> I pray the net my .debs to keep.
> If they should die before I wake,
> Then bugger it, back to Mandrake. :-)
> 
Bull. If you're still in Debian, you're missing a line in
/etc/apt/sources.list

slinky:~# grep bunk /etc/apt/sources.list 
deb http://people.debian.org/~bunk/debian potato main

Put that line in, apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade, and Voila!
(apt-get install iptables will work as a side-effect)

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[SLUG] Spend time working around bugs!

[Rev Simon Rumble]

Wow Office XP looks great!

Spend time creating, not re-creating.

Document Recovery gives you the option to automatically save your
current document, spreadsheet, or presentation at the time an
application stops responding, so you don't lose a moment's work.

Now _THAT_ is innovation!  Don't worry about fixing the bugs, write a
whole new system to work around it.

http://www.microsoft.com/office/evaluation/fastfacts.htm

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Re: [SLUG] Potato -> Woody

[Tom Massey]

Jamie Wilkinson wrote:

> This one time, at band camp, Tom Massey said:
>> And then do an apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade,
>> do I end up with a working Debian Woody system
>> or a broken pile of poo?
>
> Worked for me, so it should work for you :)

OK Jamie, I'll give it a go...

As I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the net my .debs to keep.
If they should die before I wake,
Then bugger it, back to Mandrake. :-)

Tom

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[SLUG] open sourcing the cia

[kevin]

http://www.cia.gov/cia/employment/jobpostings/opensource.htm

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Re: [SLUG] Potato -> Woody

[Jamie Wilkinson]

This one time, at band camp, Tom Massey said:
>And then do an apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade, do I end up with a working 
>Debian Woody system or a broken pile of poo?

Worked for me, so it should work for you :)

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[SLUG] Potato -> Woody

[Tom Massey]

Hi all,

A question for those who follow the Debian path:

I have a Potato system (from APC Advanced Linux Pocketbook) upgraded via apt-get to 
the latest stable Potato, with a 2.4.4 kernel I compiled myself, and the necessary 
upgrades to modutils etc to talk happily to a 2.4.x kernel. Seems to be running fine.

If in my /etc/apt/sources.list I put

deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free

And then do an apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade, do I end up with a working Debian 
Woody system or a broken pile of poo?

I'm mainly interested in getting a Debian system that can handle iptables, which 
apparently needs libc6 >=2.2.3-1 (though I think this may be just a dependency that 
apt-get and co need to run the config stuff or something like that - with libc6 
2.1.3-18 I can dpkg -i iptables 1.2.2-2, it complains and refuses to configure it, but 
it still seems to work fine, I can set up a firewall and masq stuff with no problems, 
but apt-get is unusable because it complains and exits since iptables hasn't been 
configured as far as it can tell).

Thanks,
Tom



 

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Re: [SLUG] Which USB modem?

[Anthony Rumble]

On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Steve Kowalik wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 01:17:07PM +1000, Jordan uttered:
> > What USB modem can I buy that will work with Linux?
> > I gather it must be "ACM" compliant?
> > But, how to find one?
> > The easier it is to setup, the better!
> > Assume latest kernel, etc.
> >
> Errr, why USB? USB under Linux still requires a black-belt degree in black
> magic.
> *pats his trusty 56K serial modem*

Rubbish.. The NetComm Roadster USB works fine with 2.4.x based kernels
(like Redhat 7.1, SuSE 7.1 or Mandrake 8.0).

It's actually EASIER to install the usb modem under Linux, than it is
under windows.

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